Features

‘Snow’ way out!

February 3, 2009
By Alice-May Purkiss
‘Snow’ way out!

So. On Sunday night, as everyone knows, it snowed. And it snowed quite a lot in some places. Some said that it was the worst snow in this country for 6 years, others said it was the worst for 18 years. All I know is that it was the most snow that I had...
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Gym’mind if I don’t?

January 31, 2009
By Julia Oliphant

Few things are harder than mustering the courage to leave a comfy, hungover state and head to the gym. Having plenty of time on my hands lately has meant I ponder a lot. To gym, or not to gym, that is the question. The gym doesn’t seem natural. Everything about it is so wrong....
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The joy of junk food

January 30, 2009
By Alice-May Purkiss
The joy of junk food

It’s a well known fact: there is nothing nicer than a greasy takeaway after a night out on the tiles, drinking fizzy pop. At home, finding a good pizza shop within a three minute walk of where you are is as easy as ABC. There is, after all, only one club, and all the...
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Chomp, Chomp, Chomp: Students and the Credit Crunch…

January 28, 2009
By Peter Starr

As has been noted on this blog before, the current financial situation and resulting credit crunch is a massive pile of dog mash for pretty much everyone. For us students over in university land this has meant shed loads of bad stuff. Obviously the lack of graduate jobs is worrying, but my main concerns...
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How did I end up here?

January 21, 2009
By Alice-May Purkiss

University is a funny beast. I always thought that I would go to university as it is now the ‘done thing,’ but I never really thought a lot about what I wanted to study, where I wanted to study, or even, perhaps most importantly, if I actually wanted to go to university at all....
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Exam stress needn’t get in the way of a trim vagina

January 20, 2009
By Peter Starr

January is pretty much the turd of the bunch as months go. In addition to the never ending dark, everyone realises they’re fat and poor. To compound this monumental month of misery the unsuspecting student also has the stress of exams to deal with. Exams and the associated stress are a strange thing. We’ve...
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The horror of housing

January 18, 2009
By Poppy Cockburn

Have you found a house for next year yet? You ought to have done; and if you haven’t then you really should be panicking a lot by now because there’s not the teeniest potential shard of a chance that you’ll be able to find anywhere half decent now, not least with someone you actually...
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